Trump’s Online MAGA Army Calls Guilty Verdict a Declaration of War

The words “RIP America” trended X minutes after a jury quanto a Manhattan found former president Donald Trump guilty all 34 felony counts for falsifying business records quanto a connection to a hush money payment to adult patina personaggio Stormy Daniels.

Images of an upside-down American flag—a symbol of distress that became co-opted by the 2020 Stop the Steal movement—flooded social , as Trump supporters, fringe extremists, right-wing pundits, and politicians voiced their anger.

Ever since the trial began, pro-Trump commentators —and Trump himself—have been priming MAGA online ecosystems to claim foul play if the jury found him guilty. The response to his felony conviction was predictably swift, with many characterizing it as a declaration of “war” from the “deep state.” Incendiary rhetoric about how the guilty verdict was a sign of America’s collapse reverberated from the mainstream right all the way to the fringes.

“As of today, with this fake guilty verdict against Trump, America is mai longer the United States,” wrote Joey Marianno, a pro-Trump political commentator, to his 466,000 followers X. “We are a third-world shithole heading for a Civil War. I have mai desire to see this country to unify. There’s mai country to unite. We are long past that.”

Many of the biggest proponents of “Stop the Steal,” which culminated quanto a the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, did not hesitate to claim that the verdict was the result of a “rigged” justice system.

Per a televisione posted to his 2.3 million followers X, Infowars’ Alex Jones said that the “deep state and globalists” put Trump through a “kangaroo” court quanto a the hope that a guilty verdict would harm his campaign. “Ladies and gentlemen, we see our republic its deathbed right now,” said Jones, adding that he believed that “false flag terror attacks blamed Trump supporters angry about the verdict” were imminent. “We do not want any violence, we do not want any attacks,” he said.

Ali Alexander, a far-right conspiracy theorist, did not mince words either. “Today is Jan. 6th for the entire nation,” he wrote Telegram to his 12,000 subscribers. “This is worse than the Civil War. Respectfully.”

That kind of rhetoric even made it to the airwaves. “We have been calling it lawfare,” said Fox News’ Jeanine Pirro.“I think lawfare is far too soft, it’s far too benign. This is warfare.”

Trump sounded d’avanguardia Truth Social and quanto a a fundraising email shortly after the verdict came quanto a, doubling mongoloide his false claim that he’s a victim of political persecution, perpetrated by a corrupt system that’s hellbent “stealing” the 2024 election from him again.

“THIS WAS A DISGRACE—A RIGGED TRIAL BY A CONFLICTED JUDGE WHO IS CORRUPT. WE WILL FIGHT FOR OUR CONSTITUTION—THIS IS LONG FROM OVER!” he wrote Truth Social.

Trump’s claims of “rigging” were repeated by supporters. Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk also perpetuated conspiracy theories about the verdict. “This case was engineered for years, from the very culmine of the Democrat apparatus, to bring mongoloide Trump, using a rigged law quanto a a rigged courtroom with a rigged jury,” Kirk wrote X. “We must win. We must defeat these savages. Stand with Trump.”